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I'm not trying to be disrespectful to mosques in any way, and yes, I know they're not allowed to use pictures so they resort to geometrical patterns. But still, when I look at images like this, something just feels 'off' – much like it does when you look at a haunted house. It just feels sort of otherworldly and unsettling to me. And the feeling is baked in to the visuals. It does not feel like it comes from a human world.

The same goes for something like this tbh:

Especially if I encountered it outside a church, it would really creep me out. It feels like it wants to bite me.

I know it’s a pretty common thing. I’m a straight woman, and I’ve never been turned on by seeing two men together. On the other hand, my boyfriend loves sitting back and watching his wife and me put on a show for him. According to him, it’s more about the taboo aspect of seeing his wife and girlfriend do things together purely for his enjoyment, especially since neither of us is actually attracted to women. For him, there’s also a power and control element to it.

But I know different men are into it for different reasons.

I check Google maps for reviews on local businesses, Amazon reviews for products, but for fediverse instances, AFAIK, there are no reviews

When you watch a movie or show, you are supposed to focus on what you are watching, not focus on anything else or think about anything else until what you are watching is over. So, I can't imagine how people who Maladaptively daydream can focus on a show or film.

I'm in uni, i haven't had much luck with applications so far. I know that most people actually get places by having stuff to show off e.g projects, clubs and GOOD GRADES. My grades are "mid," and I've had no time for clubs and projects (engineering student, supporting family, poor mental health)

Spam applying for places feels like it will do more harm than good. Am I right to feel that? Or completely wrong? One argument against might be that no human is going to see the application most of the time, so it really is a persistence game

I've tried vinegar, laundry detergent, alcohol-based cleaner, some "general purpose cleaner" with a pH of 9.5, dish soap, and nothing seems to work. I left the gloves hanging on my counter, and somehow the print just transferred onto the white surface of my kitchen cabinet.

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and is that a good thing or bad?

I've been discovering selfhosted Github alternatives and thought that Forgejo fits me best due to it's license. However, I like the interface of Github and Gitea more than what I see on Codeberg. So if I host my own instance of Forgejo, can I make it's interface similar to Github's?

Update: I know I do not have to self host Forgejo. I wish to know if I would have a certain option if I would self host.

So I was having a philosophical debate with myself inside my head and also trying to figure out why exactly I like the music I like so I can make it easier to discover new artists and tracks. I ran the numbers and I like every single music genre pretty much equally, don’t prefer if a man or woman is singing, doesn’t appear to be any sort of rhyme or reason other than the beat. Am I missing out on anything from other countries? I don’t care if they sing about killing babies or speaking in a made up language, if there is a “Meek Mill who only raps in French” or a “Deftones that only sings about the scientific method in Chinese” I want to hear it. I’m not asking for suggestions; I’m asking if anyone has had luck “flipping a switch” and finding tons more music in a similar way.

Do they show them victim picture or like really gruesome crime scenes so they can desensitize?

I've worked 2nd (afternoon), swing (evening), and 3rd (overnight) shifts for the majority of my life. I recently moved into a training position where I'm Monday through Friday, 8am to ~5:30pm (I get OT while I'm cleaning up and writing reports).

As much as the 2nd/swing/3rd shifts screw with your life in other ways, the difficulty in scheduling any kind of life services outside of working hours is maddening. Doctor's appointment? Nope. DMV? Maybe Saturday, if you're lucky. Chaperone your kids field trip? Hahahhah no.

I don't want to burn sick time for a doctor's appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don't want to use up a "vacation" day for it. How tf are you supposed to get anything done?

In the news there's been people buying sperm online from mystery donors, allegedly because they can't afford it from private practices.

This reminded me of the fact that last year I did look into donating sperm to the NHS (i.e i don't get paid and it's official rather than black market). They said there was a shortage back then too, and since I was already a blood and stem cell donor, and didn't have qualms about people using my sperm, I figured it would be helpful. But i ended up being a bit busy during the summer so i put it on hold while my life quietened down.

I was also turned away by a few things:

• You have to put stuff like what job you are, which made me think "oh so people are only selecting really smart/successful people? I probably shouldn't bother then?" because i simply study full time. I also have taken 2 break years so now on paper I look like a very unemployed person who took too long to do a degree.
• You can donate to private organisations and get paid, OR to the NHS. Part of me was like "hmm maybe i should get paid for this" but truth be told i now only feel comfortable doing it through the NHS, even if its completely unpaid.
• I started to consider if future life partners would be against me having donated. I think most people would see it as a vain and genghis khan-y/elon musk-ish "gene spreading" behaviour. Idk!
• It seems to be seen as unethical by some religious people. I don't really get why - i think it's because they believe a child should be specifically between husband and wife. But this isn't possible in some cases, and sperm donation allows people to stay married to the spouse they chose, or stay unmarried, while raising life. I guess it's because there are kids that need to be adpoted?

Now i'm not sure how helpful of a thing it is to do. There's a possibility that the current news cycle is misrepresenting the online sperm trade and people are just "into that," for one reason or another.

Are there any negatives i haven't thought of? A lot of people seem to dissaprove of it, i don't get why. I wouldn't really be bothered with having to meet a child 18 years after the fact, when they're allowed to contact you.

I'm very excited for RISC-V adoption in the desktop to become mainstream, as it could help to break the duopoly of x86 CPUs by Intel and AMD and encourage more competition, resulting in better value CPUs for us consumers! Being an open standard, any company can improve upon RISC-V, add additional features, make it more efficient, etc. But aside from this point, I haven't really heard much information about other advantages of RISC-V.

Could RISC-V theoretically be more efficient than ARM, more performant, etc.? Of course, currently, it isn't, since most software isn't optimised for RISC-V CPUs and companies have only just started developing them, but if it's adopted at a scale like x86 in desktop computers or ARM in mobile devices and servers, would it perform better than the x86 or ARM equivalent? Being a newer architecture (2014) than both x86 (1978 for 16-bit) and ARM (1985), does it have additional QoL improvements over the older architectures?

I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Surely "byce" or "bickle" would make more sense as a shorthand/colloquialism 👀

First, I am unable to host. My apartment wifi forbids it and I'm too poor to afford my own wifi.

Is there a good alternative to google docs? Preferably on the cloud, if not then that's fine. I know LibreOffice writer exists but to my knowledge it lacks Doc's document tab thing, which I make extensive use of, and cloud services. I'm trying to get off Google as much as I can, but the cloud hosted aspect of Docs is very useful, both for sharing links to documents quickly and for opening up a document on any of my 3 devices without having to sync or update the documents manually.

I don't mean like as an individual I've got a certain je ne sais 'justfuckmyshitup'.

I mean when did "does my hair look good ?" become a thing to worry about for worry ? Do you think birds worry about their hair ? Or horses ? Or amoebas ?

I've been thinking a lot about a long-term game development goal of mine.

My dream project would be a realistic first-person multiplayer game that combines elements I love from different genres. I'm a big fan of survival games, extraction shooters, and tactical team-based games, so I've been wondering whether it's possible to build something that evolves over time rather than trying to do everything at once.

My idea would be to start with an extraction-shooter foundation and focus on making that experience solid first. Then, if the project grows and I can build a larger team and secure more funding, I'd expand it with additional modes such as a tactical 5v5 experience and eventually a persistent open-world survival mode.

What I'm unsure about is whether this approach is technically realistic. Would building multiple game modes around the same project create too much technical debt over time? Could very different gameplay loops end up making development significantly harder?

I'm also curious about the player side of things. If a game offers several distinct modes, does that risk splitting the community too much and creating matchmaking or population issues, especially for a smaller or growing player base?

I'm still fairly new to game development and currently planning to work in Unreal Engine using Blueprints, so I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone with experience in multiplayer games, live-service projects, or large-scale game development.

Thanks in advance for any advice!